Reduce your stress by taking an outside perspective
The ability to think about your experiences from a more detached rather than absorbed perspective prevents you from focusing too much on your negative emotions. Here’s how to do it.
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Detachment refers to our ability to view our own experiences from an outside perspective. For example, try to view your situation as if you were “a fly on the wall” or as if you were someone else observing the event from a distance. The ability to think about your experiences from a more detached rather than absorbed perspective prevents you from focusing too much on your negative emotions. Distance also makes us less likely to reveal unpleasant details of the event, which also discourages us from doing so. feel It’s just as bad when bad things happen.
Practice physical distancing
- Could the observer understand why you are upset?
- Was the observer able to see the other person’s point of view?
- How would the observer assess the situation?
Think or write about your conflict from the perspective of an outside observer to reduce your negative emotions.
Use Facebook to practice
And the next time you find yourself in the middle of a stressful situation, try looking at the situation from a distance.
You can read more about the distance here
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